Towards PMPFT
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Towards PMPFT

    "God creates man,
     god creates 
     Man destroys god,
     Man creates dinosaurs,
     dinosaurs eat man.
     Woman inherits the earth."  -- aprox quote,
                 "Jurasic Park"

In Chicago's book (actually Luce-Smith's book on Chicago;
actually Luce-Smith's book on Chicago's work; ...)

There is an image of a "tampon" being removed in its functionally
explicit form; or so, the some-what siloheted ?sp? image appears.

As to how to address, this (after some thought; ie, after some
thought as to how to address this, not after some thought of this),
I came up with this:

  Many men confuse "Tampax" with "Tampons"; that is, they 
  confuse the trade-marked item, from the functioning item.
  In their (i would maintain) own bourgeois way they are 
  thus in denial of their fear of the true mystery of woman.
  They like to think about having children, but they don't
  want to know how their government actually works. They know
  less about the functioning of the female system (ie, the
  specifically female part of the female system; eg, they 
  confuse the vagina with the labia and of course they only
  know of pubic hair what Playboy (TM) show them; ie, highly
  cropped and culled fuzz), than they do about their remote
  control for their "tv" set.

  It should be noted that the decline of western civilisation
  can be directly traced to the Descartes' exploration of
  the existentialist proposition:  "I think therefore I am",
  which subseuqently led to the devlopment of the wireless 
  remote. The history of this connection was (finally) expounded
  in the work of Barbara Kruger in her assertion: "I shop,
  therefore I am".

(it was as the point that the distinguished philosopher
 got down off of his soap box and fell face first into a
 load of quite recently deposited horse hockey).


 And of course:  Wibble.

 (or in the words of Oscar: Q.E.D.)

(as to exactly *which* oscar that might be, this is left as
 an exercise for the student; hint: Left leaning anarchist
 and part time Kropotkin went so far as to embrace (or at
 least mention in non-scathing terms his support for)
 the fundamental range of "action/re-action/idea" to be
 found in the bounds of:  Individualism vs. la pro-
 pagande par le fait [propaganda of the deed]. And
 yet in Picasso's work, there is very much the deed, but
 little propaganda (or at the very least, a Very Proper Gander;
 see Note 1). So, of course it would be wise to be cautious
 when dealing with ducks.

 NOTES: 

 [1] James Thurber's "Fairy Tales for Modern Times" ?title?,
     refer to "The Thurber Carnival". ?pub-info? ?etc?

 [2] References were made to the following in the preparation
     of this work:

     Edward Lucie-Smith [Judy Chicago -- retrospective
     
     Patricia Leighten, "Re-Ordering the Universe: Picasso and
                         Anarchism, 1897-1914", Pp.14-15,
     ISBN 0.691.04059.1 (1989, Princeton).

Also, the author would like to acknowledge discussions with people
far too numerous to mention (and would not do so for fear of 
embarassing them in connection with the current dialog explored
-- but you *know* who you are). As well as to thank specific 
people for grants, gifts, and loans that make this continuing
effort to explore (on again abouta the on-going dialog) the current
aspects of what art is (or at the very least what the rolé of
ducks in art might be; or failing that, that ducks might prefer
crackers to rolls anyway).